24 hours Part-Time Remote Coder III - Inpatient
24 hours Part-Time Remote Coder III - Inpatient
Community Health Systems
Franklin, TN
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Job Description
Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 43 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 77 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.
Summary
As a member of the HIM Central Services coding team, provides Inpatient coding assistance for a set of HIM Central Services supported CHS hospitals. Reviews patient records and assigns accurate codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Applied knowledge of medical terminology, disease processes, and pharmacology. Demonstrates data quality and integrity skills.
This individual will be required to make independent decisions regarding accurate ICD-10-CM & PCS code assignments which will play a key role in determining the reimbursement potential of CHS with adherence to compliant coding standards and corporate policies developed to ensure accurate billing.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Required Education:
Preferred Experience: 2 years’ acute care hospital inpatient coding experience Coding complex cardiac and neuroscience procedures
Required License/Registration/Certification: CIC, CCS, RHIA, or RHIT
Preferred License/Registration/Certification: Click here to enter text.
Computer Skills Required: Experience with virtual desktop image, electronic medical record systems, encoding systems as well as word processing and spreadsheet software
Physical Demands
In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:
Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 43 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 77 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.
Summary
As a member of the HIM Central Services coding team, provides Inpatient coding assistance for a set of HIM Central Services supported CHS hospitals. Reviews patient records and assigns accurate codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Applied knowledge of medical terminology, disease processes, and pharmacology. Demonstrates data quality and integrity skills.
This individual will be required to make independent decisions regarding accurate ICD-10-CM & PCS code assignments which will play a key role in determining the reimbursement potential of CHS with adherence to compliant coding standards and corporate policies developed to ensure accurate billing.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Performs remote coding for CHS hospitals via scanned medical records and abstracts via access to hospital abstracting system as part of a corporate coding organization.
- Primarily codes inpatient records and may have experience in outpatient coding
- Submit queries to providers for documentation clarification to include diagnosis clarification based on clinical indicators and coding specificity requirements
- Consults the Manager, Corporate Coding or other available resources and works out difficult codes and/or coding problems.
- Attends coding education as scheduled.
- Other duties may be assigned
- Maintains productivity levels set forth by Community Health Systems while maintaining a 95% coding accuracy rate.
Required Education:
- High School Education or GED
- ICD-10-CM & PCS
- Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management or related field -Knowledge of related prospective payment systems, anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology
- Broad knowledge of pharmacology indications for drug usage and related adverse reactions
Preferred Experience: 2 years’ acute care hospital inpatient coding experience Coding complex cardiac and neuroscience procedures
Required License/Registration/Certification: CIC, CCS, RHIA, or RHIT
Preferred License/Registration/Certification: Click here to enter text.
Computer Skills Required: Experience with virtual desktop image, electronic medical record systems, encoding systems as well as word processing and spreadsheet software
Physical Demands
In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:
- The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
- The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.
- The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office, home-based office or administrative work.
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Seniority level
Not Applicable -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Other -
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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